The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1887-03-19

| o"u oonlpdHleS IN nvo weeks.
IHE first street railroad in America wa
completed in New York City in 1882.
PHILADELPHIA has won the fight, and will
nave hvo cent fares on its street cars.
TELEeRAPHIo communication has bee,
opened between Mexico and Guatemala.
IHE once famous Cardiff Giant is nov
stored away in an old box at Ell Paso, Tex
A YOUNG girl from the Sandwich Island,
Is studying law at the University Of Michi
gan.
WASHINGTON, since the adjournment O,
Congress, has the appearance of deserted
village.
THE highest ambition Of q Chinese gen
tleman is to have nice coffin and q fne
funeral.
WOMEN are acknowledged by tho CA,
10 De among his most efficient secret de-
tectives.
The Adams Express Company succeeds
the b. q o. on the Ohio and Mississippi
railroad.
NEARLY eight thousand applications have
peen filed under the recent Mexican war
pension law.
The Treasury Department will soon ar.
range for the supply Of the active demand
for small notes.
A STRANGE thing about Dale County,
Fla, is the fact that there is not q public
road in the county.
THERE will be an immense pineapple
crop on the Florida islands and mainland
the ensuing season.
WITH no Congress to abuse, the para
grapher will now have to turn his atten.
ton to spring poets.
The Legislature Of Tennessee has by a
decided majority refused to pass bill
making lynching felony.
HANNAH BATTERsBY, the latest woman
before the public, weighs 728 pounds. She
eats half pound Of candy daily.
The Government Fish Hatchery at Wash.
ington is now Matching 5,OOO,o 200 white fish
eggs, the fry to be placed in Lake Erie.
The King Of Sweden has tiattered Bis
marck by following his example and dis
solving Parliament because it declines to
obey his orders.
The estate Of the late Cyrus II. McCor-
mick, ST., of Chicago, foots up total Of
more than A,5OO,0OO, the profit of the pat
ent reaping machine.
A COUPLE named Blodget, at Gilroy, Cal.
nave been married seventy-nine years.
The husband is ninety-niue years old and
his wife ninety-seven.
JUSTICE GRAY is the only bachelor unon
the United States Supreme bench. He is
the largest man in the court, the baldest,
and is famous epicure.
1T is rumored that Pobiedonostchieff is
TO be De Gier's successor as Russian Min
lster OF Foreign Affairs. What toboggan
slide his door-plate would make, though!
LAST year the people of this country
3,5lO,S9S,5 5SS cigars-an average Of
over fifty for every man, woman and child
IN the land. We are nation of smokers.
JENNIE JUNE has seen the women of all
nations, and has made up her mind that
american women stand at the head for
neaith, complexion, taste and good temper
A PACKAGE mailed at Boston, for the
Prince of Wales, is held at the dead-letter
'ffice, Washington, for postage. In appear
lnce 1t appears to be an Internal appa-
'atus.
1T is estimated that thirty thousand fe-
males could find husbands inside Of fort
hight in Wyoming and Montana territories.
md why the procession doesn't move is q
MYSTERY.
A STATUE Of Robert Burns is to bs placed
washington Park, Albany, in accord
nee with the will Of the late Mary Nc.
'herson, who left $4,000 for the purpose
asst year.
GEORGE M. PULLMAN, the millionaire car
uilder, is now Sir George, q member of
ne Italian nobility and the debtor of King
1umoert for the honor of being thus
nighted
IHE Peabody fund London) now
mounts to A,553,34O. The original Gift
vas 2,5O0,0O0 the balance having been
dded to it by the money received for
ent and interest.
The name Of the new Consul to Maxico.
Missouri gentleman, is Elizabeth Caro-.
me Moore. He was named for his two
His grandfathers seem to
ave been neglected.
THE most rapid cannon shots scarcelu
each a speed of 2,0OO feet per second.
'hile meteorites penetrate the air at the
ate OF twenty-five or thirty miles, and
ven more, per second.
A GREAT dictionary-which promises to
e the most perfect yet collated-is now
eng gotten up in New York, to be called
he Century Dictionary. 1t will REQUIRE
he work Of one hundred editors for ten
ears to put it in shape.
JUDGE GRAY, of White County. Ark was
utting on his wedding clothes the other
ay, preparatory to marrying Miss Mamie
atty, when he complained of pain in his
ght arm, called for water, and then al
ost Immediately died.
PITTSBURGH possesses two wealthy little
omen in the Misses Stella Hayes and
win Laughlin. The former is fourteen
ears OF age and one of four heirs toss, 600.
Cleft by her grandfather. Irwin LaaQhlin.
n years Of age, is an orphan and sole
'iress to many millions.